Onepoint Group’s 2025 Advent of Tech!
This year, the Onepoint Group’s Advent of Tech calendar is taking on a whole new dimension. Every day until Christmas, we’ll be sharing an article written by one of our collaborators from both sides of the Atlantic.
This special edition, initiated by our Tech.ops Associate Benjamin Marsteau, brings our community together around a shared spirit: learning, sharing, and celebrating innovation, more and more each day.
See what’s featured for the day
Put Some Love Into Your Product: Is the MVP Outdated? (Article in French only)
The classic MVP is no longer enough, giving way to the Minimum Lovable Product—a first version that builds user attachment from day one by emphasizing emotion, quality, and meaningful details. This approach reshapes user engagement and inspires teams to go further. A sharp read for anyone rethinking how they design products.
An article by Sofia Krari, Associate Tech Studio
Hibernate: The Tuning Art That Turns a Slow Java App Into a Fast One (Article in French only)
With proper tuning, Hibernate can turn a slow Java application into a highly efficient one. By optimizing queries, mappings, and data loading strategies, developers can eliminate major bottlenecks and restore smooth performance. A must-read for anyone looking to get the most out of their Java stack.
Make Your AI Prompts Collaborative with VS Code and Promptitude
A well-organized prompt library can turn your AI interactions into an efficient and collaborative workflow. By structuring prompts in Markdown files synced via Promptitude inside VS Code, teams can access standardized prompts, iterate on them, and reuse them seamlessly. The result: more effective AI assistants, reduced friction, and a productivity boost across the whole project.
Can We Still Test Like Beizer? (Article in French)
This article revisits Boris Beizer’s foundational definitions of software testing and compares them with modern approaches such as TDD and BDD. By revisiting the distinctions between unit, component, integration, and system testing, it highlights how Beizer’s conceptual clarity stands in contrast to today’s ambiguous terminology.
The Secret GCP Workshop: How to Outsmart Christmas Bandits (Article in French)
This playful article uses the metaphor of Santa’s workshop under attack to explain how to secure workloads on Google Cloud Platform. Through IAM, VPCs, firewalls, and the Security Command Center, it highlights the shared responsibility model and shows how access control, isolation, and security monitoring are essential to protect cloud environments.
North Pole 2025: When Santa Switches to Agentforce Mode (Article in French)
This humorous yet realistic story explains how the North Pole modernized its global gift request operations using Salesforce Agentforce and AI. It walks through the transformation steps, from resistance to change and business case validation to Einstein 1 architecture, autonomous AI agents, self-service portals, predictive analytics, and measurable operational improvements.
SWAG: The Docker Reverse Proxy That Will Transform Your Homelab (Article in French)
SWAG dramatically simplifies managing web services by automating SSL certificates, subdomain routing, and centralized authentication. With clean Docker-based configuration and ready-to-use integrations, it becomes easy to expose multiple services through a single secure and streamlined entry point.
Your App Might Get Rejected in 2026 if You Ignore the New Requirements (Article in French)
The article warns mobile developers that starting in 2026, new regulatory and store requirements may block app publication if not addressed. It outlines a timeline of key deadlines (age verification, parental consent, accessibility standards, AI compliance…) and urges developers to prepare ahead to avoid rejection. A must-read for any mobile team concerned with long-term viability.
Architecting “Agentic” Systems at the Edge: a Technical & Strategic Analysis of the Cloudflare Platform
Discover how Cloudflare is redefining AI deployment by running intelligence closer to users instead of relying solely on centralized cloud infrastructure. With ultra-fast execution, near-zero latency, and the ability to scale to millions of real-time requests without unpredictable costs, edge-AI emerges as a compelling option for organizations looking to launch scalable and efficient AI solutions.
Stop Asking the LLM “Is This Good” — Ask What’s Wrong (Article in French)
Seeking approval from an AI limits its potential. By prompting it to spot gaps, challenges, and improvement opportunities, the model shifts from passive validation to meaningful critical thinking. The output instantly becomes sharper and more valuable. A small shift in mindset that creates a major leap in results.
ChatGPT: My Digital Elf (Article in French)
The article portrays ChatGPT as a versatile digital assistant, a “little elf” capable of helping with many tasks: writing, research, brainstorming, editing, etc. It explains how to get the most out of ChatGPT by crafting tailored prompts and leveraging its abilities to boost productivity and creativity. A good reflection for anyone looking to integrate AI into their content creation.
Article by Camille P. Parent, Marketing & Communications Manager
Neuroatypies: Debugging an Atypical Brain in Production (Article in French)
By likening neuroatypical cognition to debugging a complex software system, let’s explore how sensory overload, lack of default filtering, and implicit social cues can disrupt daily life and work. This powerful analogy makes the invisible visible, helping teams better understand why noisy environments, vague expectations, or unclear feedback hit some colleagues harder than others.
Agentic AI Applied to Human Resources: Where Is My HR? (Article in French)
Agentic AI is reshaping HR by moving it beyond administration toward real-time, proactive support for employees. Autonomous AI agents can answer questions, guide decisions, and trigger actions, freeing HR teams to focus on higher-value, human-centered work. A clear look at how AI can redefine the employee experience.
Building for Distributed Deployment (Article in French)
Designing with distributed deployment in mind fundamentally reshapes how modern applications are built. Resilience, fault tolerance, latency management, observability, and automation become core principles rather than afterthoughts. Explore how teams aim to deliver systems that scale, adapt, and remain reliable in real-world conditions.
Security, Made Simple: A High-Level Approach (Article in French)
Security should not be treated as a purely technical burden, but as a guiding framework for informed decision-making. By taking a high-level approach, organizations can clarify responsibilities, reduce risk, and make security accessible beyond technical teams. Learn how to embed security into strategy rather than complexity.
DAT as Code: Automating Technical Documentation with AI (Article in French)
Technical documentation no longer has to be a necessary evil. By combining the DAT as Code approach with AI, teams can generate, maintain, and evolve documentation that stays accurate, useful, and aligned with the codebase. A practical way to reduce documentation debt while improving collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Making a Shared Brain with My GenAI Buddy
Instead of treating GenAI as just another tool, the author reveals how to turn it into a shared brain that helps structure, remember, and think alongside you using a Zettelkasten-inspired workflow. By breaking down ideas into atomic pieces and linking them together, you can make the AI a true co-pilot that extends your thinking and speeds up product backlog management.
So, How’s the Prompting Going? (Article in French)
Instead of treating prompting as a set of isolated tricks, the article frames it as a strategic skill that requires method, structure, and intent, similar to writing a clear brief or business rule. By using defined frameworks (goals, constraints, personas, expected outputs) and iterating smartly, you get responses that are far more relevant, reliable, and actionable in professional contexts.
Diagram as Code in 2025: The Family Reunion of Tools (Article in French)
Rather than drawing diagrams by hand, the Diagram as Code approach lets you generate, version, and automate diagrams just like code, a game changer for collaboration and maintainability. In 2025, the tooling ecosystem has evolved to connect models, CI/CD pipelines, and live documentation for smoother communication across developers, architects, and stakeholders.
A Philosophical Hook into the World of Software Engineering (Article in French)
Software engineering is not just about code, tools, or efficiency — it is shaped by philosophical, political, and social choices we often overlook. From language and value to software quality, open source, productivity, AI, and knowledge itself, this article challenges our assumptions and invites deeper reflection on how technology shapes our world. A thought-provoking piece that encourages taking digital transformation seriously — by thinking before accelerating.
Working Together Without Stepping on Each Other’s Toes: When Testing Meets Accessibility (Article in French)
Testing and accessibility are far more effective when approached together rather than in isolation. By combining continuous accessibility testing with targeted audits, QA and accessibility teams can catch issues earlier, reduce remediation costs, and significantly improve product quality. A collaborative model that embeds accessibility into project culture and turns compliance into a driver of long-term inclusion and robustness.
Article by Henri Gauffriau, François-Xavier Lair, Florent Parolini and Delphine Renaud
Have Europeans Really Lost the Cloud War? (Article in French)
The dominance of US hyperscalers in public cloud is undeniable, but it does not tell the full story. While Europe has clearly lost the race for scale and visibility, it retains strong leverage in sovereignty, regulation, sensitive workloads, and niche markets. A clear-eyed and balanced take on a war lost in volume, yet still open when it comes to value, compliance, and viable alternatives.
What Is the Ideal Size for a Class? (Article in French)
Instead of arbitrary limits, this article offers a pragmatic look at why and how to decide the right class size in your codebase. Focusing on readability, simplicity, and single responsibility, it shows how overly long or dense classes hurt maintainability and team productivity.
Learning Guide to Master GitHub Copilot (Article in French)
Copilot has moved far beyond autocomplete and can become a true development co-pilot, as long as you use it with a structured approach. This guide lays out a practical learning path to leverage context, slash commands, team instructions, agent mode, and the CLI ecosystem to produce results that are more reliable, consistent, and reusable.